An explicit model for the complex representations of \(S_ n\) (Q909782): Difference between revisions

The authors provide the following elegant construction of the model character (the sum of all the irreducibles) for the symmetric group, in terms of plethysms and using the Littlewood-Richardson rule: \[ \sum_{\alpha \vdash n}[\alpha]=\sum_{0\leq k\leq n/2}([2]\odot [k])[1^{n-2k}]. \]